Explosives

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[RazeByFire]

Aerosolized Diesel Fuel. Fuel Air Explosive.

 

[CopyCarver]

Diesel fuel would do the trick, but you'd get a more hellacious blast is you mixed the diesel (or kerosene) with ammonium nitrate--aka commercial fertilizer. On the downside, that's uncomfortably McVeigh-like.

You could always specify C4, probably the best-known of the plastique explosives. It's somewhat powdery in its shipping container but kneading it (almost like bread dough) turns it into a rubbery putty-like mass that can be squeezed or pulled into any shape. It sticks anywhere you apply it. When it detonates, it takes down anything less sturdy than the average Alp.


BTW, wasn't I talking to you elsewhere a couple minutes ago, or (Gasp!) am I going as schizoid as my ex claims I am?

 

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[CopyCarver]

Serious detonation required-C4 is surprisingly stable. Lighting it with a match produces a hot, smoky flame but no bang. (I've actually cooked over this stuff when no decent fuel was available)

Prima-cord or a common dynamite cap works nicely.

After the PM

 

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[Weird Harold]

If you wanted to create maximum damage to an empty building, what kind of explosive would you use after you'd demolished the contents with a gun?

Disclaimer: this is for a fantasy, not real life.

Depends on whether you character routinely travels with explosives as well as firearms -- i.e. did he/she go there to detroy the building or is this a situation he just stumbled over.

If it's an improvisational situation, break a gas line and light a candle on the far side of the room/building -- when the gas works it's way to the flame, it's well mixed with the air and produces a fuel/air explosion as good as almost any deliberate explosive.

 

[Ezzy]

If it's an improvisational situation, break a gas line and light a candle on the far side of the room/building -- when the gas works it's way to the flame, it's well mixed with the air and produces a fuel/air explosion as good as almost any deliberate explosive.

And don't have him stop for a cigarette break in the building!

 

[asian_princess]

OMG!! lilredjammies!! what are you going to do to those poor cute lil sockies??!!! a laundry massacre...is it going to go under horror?!!!

 

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[mcopado]

Depends on whether you character routinely travels with explosives as well as firearms -- i.e. did he/she go there to detroy the building or is this a situation he just stumbled over.

If it's an improvisational situation, break a gas line and light a candle on the far side of the room/building -- when the gas works it's way to the flame, it's well mixed with the air and produces a fuel/air explosion as good as almost any deliberate explosive.

Do this like he said, but take a standard lightbulb, with a torch heat the metal threaded part and carefully remove it, being careful to keep the filament intact. Pour into the bulb (about half full) a mixture of gasoline, chunks of styrephome (sp?) and powdered soap flakes all mixed together (Basically napalm) carefully replace the screw/filament and either use superglue, epoxy, or solder (You'll have to experiment). Place a lamp in the center of the room on a timer (unless your character want's to murder someone, then instead put it in the ceiling fixture attached to the light switch he would normally flip on when he enters the room....

Wait for nice napalm boom to ignite the gas that has built up in the room....Oh, you don't have to break a gas line, just kill the pilot lights on the stove and water heater and let the gas build up...

hehe...me like booms

 

[Weird Harold]

Oh, you don't have to break a gas line, just kill the pilot lights on the stove and water heater and let the gas build up...

That only works if he appliances are over about 30 years old. If the building has been rerofitted with "Excess Flow Metering" even breaking a gas line won't work if the shut-off valve is all the way open.

Damned safety regulations and features make improvised destruction difficult.

 

[temp256]

The easiest way would be ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil). Saturate the ammonium nitrate with deisel fuel, kerosene, or for a bigger boost, nitromethane.

You will need a substantial shock wave to detonate it, even more so than RDX (the explosive component of C4). You need an explosive train. Starting with the primary charge, use about 5 grams of compressed acetone peroxide in a small aluminum tube. Place this in a jar filled with about 500g of ammonium nitrate, and saturate it with nitroglycerin. This should be enough to detonate a 50 kg charge of ANFO.

Another way would be to obtain large tanks of welding gasses, both oxygen and acetylene. Light a gas stove at the other end of the room, and open the valves of the two tanks. This will create an even more powerful fuel air explosion.

The "napalm" idea will not work. Gasoline will not explode unless thorougly mixed with oxygen, and the napalm effect of polystyrene is abysmal.

I'm not a terrorist, I'm a chemist.

 

[CopyCarver]

Jammies,
I hope you realize you've driven half the ATF and Homeland Security staff into total exhaustion. You know how tired they get moving their lips while reading this much text.

 

[temp256]

Oh please. You should see the other forum I frequent. It's where I got most of my explosive knowledge.

 

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[CopyCarver]

That's okay--they get a break when they listen to my calls to Canada and/or from the UK, and I've got a CD coming from Stockholm I'm sure they'll listen to before they let it get to me.

Besides, I'd rather have a weekend to drive you into total exhaustion.

Sounds like a plan. They'll never find us anyway. (If the cowboys can't even find a 7-foot tall dude attached to a dialysis machine...)

 

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